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A Tale Of Three Babysitters

June 16, 2009

At a party recently I bemoaned the fact that my babysitter was leaving us, when I woman I barely know turned to me, a look of recollected horror on her face.
“I went into therapy after my favorite babysitter quit,” she said, eyebrows knitting together in consternation.
I gave her my patented “cocktail party/fellow parent” laugh, and [...]

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Can You Die From An Ingrown Pubic Hair?

February 2, 2009

I felt a searing pain in my hip region Saturday afternoon, when Shaggy Boy was performing his usual gymnastics on my lap.
I put him down and went to investigate. I pulled my jeans down and there it was: an angry, red boil the size of oh, THE SUN.
I’m not one of those fair-haired, smooth-skinned damsels [...]

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